The judge of the National Court Manuel García Castellón proposes to try commissioner José Manuel Villarejo and the former director of Security of Iberdrola Antonio Asenjo for the irregular contracts of the electricity company with the police companies, who would have pocketed 1.4 million euros from them . Furthermore, he proposes to declare the company and the State Administration as civilly responsible and transfers it to the Prosecutor's Office and the accusations to present their indictment documents.
In the order to move to the abbreviated procedure of separate piece 17 of the so-called tandem case, the head of the Central Court of Instruction 6 proposes to also try Villarejo's partner in the company Cenyt Rafael Redondo. The magistrate considers proven the crimes of passive bribery, active bribery, discovery and disclosure of secrets and falsification of commercial documents.
The resolution explains that, between 2004 and 2011, Antonio Asenjo, in his capacity as security director of the Iberdrola Group and with full knowledge that Villarejo was in active service as Commissioner of the National Police Corps, commissioned him to carry out different investigations. about events that directly affected the company.
According to the judge, the purpose of the investigations commissioned to Villarejo on behalf of the Iberdrola Group was to obtain information about natural and legal persons that could be used by the company to defend its interests. For these orders, the order states, the Villarejo and Redondo company obtained 1,455,064 euros from the Iberdrola Group.
Throughout his resolution, the magistrate details the dozen projects commissioned from the Villarejo company. Among them, the investigation of the then president of Endesa, Manuel Pizarro, one of its main competitors in the market. In the execution of this project, those investigated managed to obtain Pizarro's call traffic and collected information about people he contacted within the framework of the takeover bid that Gas Natural carried out in 2005 for Endesa.
The judge explains that to justify the payments made and received on behalf of the Iberdrola Group, those investigated agreed to issue a series of invoices manipulating the concepts to reflect services different from those that were actually provided and thus mask “that they had been provided by an active commissioner.” of the National Police Corps.”
